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I mentioned earlier that I’m refactoring some game code to use a State Design Pattern, so I thought I’d write about what I’ve done in my blog. Click To Read More...

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve started work again on “Ten Nights” and I was able to squeak out a build last night. Before I was about to publish it on my website though, I ended up IM‘ing with Sinasac and we worked on getting a better background image for the clipboard. It looks quite nice now in my opinion and matches up with the other improved graphics. Download it here. Now to start work on improving the graphics of the game itself.

For those of you who don’t know what XML is, I’ll start by saying XML is possibly one of the worst acronyms ever. It stands for stands for “eXtensible Markup Language” and not only does this acronym illegally steal the ever-cool letter ‘X’ for its own deviant purposes, it turns out that XML is not even a language, it’s a syntax. Click To Read More...

Apparently, I’m not the only one who’s concerned that High Fructose Corn Syrup is in everything nowadays. I remember a time when the ingredients on a can of coke were water, sugar and battery acid, but some time ago they sneakily replaced sugar with High Fructose Corn Syrup. Click To Read More...

Last Friday my two sons, Joshua and Jacob, turned 10 months old, so I thought I’d devote an entry to them. Click To Read More...

Looks like somebody is getting sick of all the Google advertising. I wonder how long this will last until Google lawyers get into the mix…

And this comes just as I was looking into pimping myself with Google’s AdSense program…

[Editor’s Note: Which I subsequently did and have been doing for 3+ years…]

I got an email today from Buy.com advertising a pre-order of “The Incredibles” DVD (2-Disc Collector’s Edition) for $17 USD (free shipping), so I had to do it. Click here to do it too!

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